Does anyone have experience with Mosso, which seems to be a competitor to EC2? On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:17 AM, steve ulrich <sulrich at botwerks.org> wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Elvedin Trnjanin <trnja001 at umn.edu> wrote: > > > > Perry Hoekstra wrote: > >> It is not running on VMWare, it is its own animal. However, you can run > >> any flavor of Linux that you care to on EC2. > >> > >> > > Technically, the hypervisor is Xen. It's easiest to run whatever machine > > images are already available. > >> My first question to you is, if the instance went down or was unstable, > >> what would be the impact? > >> > >> > > I assume it would be the same answer as any other machine. > >> If you are running MySQL within EC2, you need to have backups to Amazon > >> S3. That way, if you lose the instance, the backup data is sitting in > S3. > >> > >> Perry Hoekstra > >> > >> > > > > As for suggestions from me, even the smallest instance will cost you at > > least $70 per month. Add on storage, the amount of IO transactions, plus > > bandwidth, and you end up with something more expensive than a dedicated > > server that works about the same but does not perform as well. If you're > > doing a database in EC2 and you're storing the database files in S3, > > that's going to be quite slow as the files would be on something that is > > essentially an NFS server. The only benefit is quality bandwidth and > > being able to bring up a new instance on demand. > > > > If you're looking for other providers to compare, try out Slicehost. > > having spent a good chunk of time with EC2 for various projects i'd > echo these sentiments. EC2 really shines when you're looking to do > something which requires incremental addition of compute capacity to > deal with capacity requirements or you need to split problems up > across a bunch of hardware for variable and typically short amounts of > time. > > if you're looking for something to host your personal domains, mail, > etc you'll likely be better off with a virtual private server solution > from any number of reputable hosting providers. the pricing for these > services with a year contract can be had for much lower price points. > godaddy for example can get you a respectable VPS server for 30-40 / > month. > > a small CPU configuration on amazon's ec2 will run you ~$75 / month as > noted and some unique hoops to jump through which you won't > necessarily need to jump through w/a VPS at a commodity hosting > provider. > > > > >> John Gateley wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Y'all, > >>> > >>> I've been running a home server (DNS, e-mail, web server, database) > >>> for several years. I think it is time to move offsite. Anyone tried > >>> EC2 for this? It looks like EC2 is a thin layer on top of VMware so > >>> I could run what I needed. > >>> > >>> I can use godaddy for DNS, so I don't need that anymore. > >>> > >>> I use qmail for mail, and I'd like to keep that, I have a somewhat > >>> complex setup. > >>> > >>> I'm running apache2 and a few wikis hitting MySQL. > >>> > >>> Suggestions? > >>> > >>> j > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > -- > steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.*) > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090504/614fae2e/attachment-0001.htm